Many years ago when i picked up one of my AM's, I knew it had "issues". I sent it to Brian Maynard for a "tune up" and a complete go-through by him.

Well my AM had that spring missing too. I asked if he had any spare springs, or if it could be fixed. He said that he just puts a spring (cut to length) from a ballpoint pen in place and it had always worked just fine.

He told me that the factory started gluing that spring in place when they started getting complaints of customers "loosing" that spring. If he came across an AM that had that epoxy in place he knew the gun hadn't been fired much.

Part of his "tune up" was to put a recessed area there to help hold that spring in place.

So good news, while I did not get any ball points I did just
get a random box of springs and having found one with the correct diameter and cutting
git down we have a winner, shot 4 rounds without any issues but not the 5th,
after taking the pistol apart the spring had come out at the bottom just like the
original, sadly we where out of time so next week we will go the same but this
time a little epoxy at the bottom of the spring to hold it in place and we
should be right as rain.

Also it was well worth stripping down and it needed a real
clean so it should function quite a bit better once we have the spring sorted
out next week, I think the second AutoMag will also be stripped down for a proper
clean as well.

I was quite Lucky as I have the video that Larry did for
Bert on the strip down and reassembly and that helped no end.

Thanks to everyone who offered advice and help and one more
week and we will be back up and running again

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